Secondary Source
Treacherous Texts: US Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
Treacherous Texts: US Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946. Edited with an introduction by Mary Chapman and Angela Mills. Rutgers, 2011.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book Reviews, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction
Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846–1946 is an anthology of diverse literature aimed at convincing Americans to support the suffrage movement that collects “more than sixty literary texts written by smart, […] Read More
Archival Collection
Archive: Suffrage Resources of the National Woman’s Party
at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Leaflets, Magazines, Newspapers, Posters, Sketches
The National Woman’s Party collection at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in Washington, DC has a vast collection of books, periodicals, cartoons, scrapbooks, artifacts, and ephemera from the NWP’s […] Read More
Primary Source
Bertha Damaris Knobe, Spectacular Woman Suffrage in America
Bertha Damaris Knobe. "Spectacular Woman Suffrage in America." The Independent [New York] October 12, 1911, Vol. 71, p. 801.
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines
Bertha Damaris Knobe, a chronicler of the women’s movement for voting rights, penned a striking account of suffragist activism for The Independent magazine in October 1911. Setting out to document the diversity […] Read More
Primary Source
Novel: The Bostonians by Henry James
Henry James. The Bostonians. Macmillan and Co., February 1886 and many subsequent editions.
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Book-Fiction, Book-Novel, Magazines, Newspapers
Henry James’ The Bostonians was originally published as a serial in Century magazine (Vol. 30, 31, 1885-1886), starting in February 1885. Much of the magazine is digitized so the serial […] Read More
Primary Source
Fannie Hurst: What of It? Have We Women Freed Ourselves from Men Or Do They Own Us More Than Ever Before?”
Redbook, Vol. 49, August 1927, pp. 60-62, 106, 108.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines
By 1927, the writer Fannie Hurst had earned a reputation as the nation’s highest paid short story writer and one of its most popular women of letters. She was often […] Read More
Secondary Source
A Documentary: Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema
Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema. Director: Kay Sloan. Kay Sloan, 2003.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Documentary Film
Early filmmakers—both those in favor of women’s suffrage and those who opposed it—used the new medium to create commentaries on the issue, and to create widely seen portrayals of the women […] Read More